Alese POV
"Tyrone is calling for a meeting. It might be about the kid." "I'm going; I'll just fix the place before I go." I sighed as Hugo finishes his transmission. It's been only a small amount of time since we last held a meeting, I wasn't surprised though, the human's soul was weakened but it wasn't gone. "It's just as I feared, Tia better be ready to give her reason." As I finished, I went to the usual gate and when I entered I and Hugo were the first ones there. "Not much mess this time Alese?" "Nope, although I wished there was a bit more." He simply scoffed and sat himself down, after waiting for half an hour the others came.
"Sorry for the delay." Tia said as she sat down, Tyrone nodded at her and she sighed to herself. "I guess you all know what you are called here for, so I will cut to the chase, Finn the human has become an undead." That's why his soul was peculiar, someone tampered with it, sealed it away. "A vampire who is making the rounds on Earth ever since the fall of humanity caused this problem of ours." Everybody turned at Samantha who raised her hand and said, "Can't I directly interfere? I mean we can just rid of him, Hugo's method failed with two innocent beings dead." "But we can't, we cannot tip the balances in our favor." Seph retorted.
"What about you, Alese what are your thoughts on this?" Hugo asked. "I agree with Seph, even if we can I won't be able to." I was preparing for Tia to question me but to my surprise she stayed in silence, I fixed myself to her direction and I saw something change. She was quiet and nervous, it's as if she knows something and can't bring herself to say it. "HEY ALESE!" a loud yell snapped me back to reality I looked around and I said, "I'm sorry, what was it you were saying?" "I said think for a solution, I will give you all ample but strict time frame for this." With that said the meeting was done.
While the others went out first Hugo and I remained seated, when Tyrone exited the room Hugo and I began our discussion. "You noticed it too huh?" "I did, Tia wasn't her usual confident self." Hugo casted a barrier inside the room and he said, "She knows what is wrong; we need to hear it from her." "Why don't you go into her mind, it's easier that way." Hugo sighed and he said, "I can't it's my limitation." I was surprised that he revealed it to me, each one of us six had our limitations and it's been decided that we keep it to ourselves. "Listen keep this a secret, we need to focus on Tia get her to confess."
After the talk Hugo and I still shared some ideas with the plan and after that we took our own routes back to our realms. I closed the gate then I rubbed my head to relieve the stress, I went to my room and I looked back at the human's soul. "I knew it. Well time to take out my old tools." I opened my box and I took out a tool and my glasses, it was blessed with true sight which reveals the true nature of souls. I went back to the room and I looked at the soul again through the glasses this time. I saw something dark, so I used the tool to try and alter it but just as the two made contact it sent me flying. "This is serious". I said to myself.
Third Person View
"So uhh what's the damage this time?" Death asked while exiting a portal from the dead world, he looked at the cause and right at that moment he smacked his hand on his face and sighed deeply. "Hey there my friend, we have some misunderstanding here that you can clear up." "What did he do this time?" Althea pinched the bridge of her nose and she said, "Your friend here just tipped of his daughter who's guarding Finn, our target." Death was so pissed at Hunson, he glared at him and he said, "I don't need this right now, do what you see fit boss." He was about to exit the portal and Hunson began explaining. "Whoa okay I'll give."
Death returns to where he stood and Althea ordered Hunson to begin explaining. "Listen, I didn't say anything about you guys I just told her to ready herself, besides I still have a plan to capture that boy for you so chill out." "How do we know you're not keeping him for you and your daughter?" Althea asked. "You don't." Hunson answered with confidence. "This is why I hate you more ways than one, give me and assurance!" Althea yelled. Hunson looked at death, "Why don't you ask our very faithful guardian here for my terms." Althea's attention was diverted to death which gave the Demon enough time to escape. She didn't get an answer and her captive was gone.
"Grr, okay I'll calm down. Now, tell me the whole deal with Hunson Abadeer." Althea demanded for answers and Death can't say no now so he started laying out the details. "And for his services he asked for some of these." Death handed over the list to Althea and after she inspected it and said, "Hmm, trivial not much of value. Okay I will back you on this one but be careful he might give you the slip when the time comes." "I will, whatever happens I will take responsibility for it." Althea nodded in agreement. After that they fixed up some of the mess Hunson made, while doing that Death was thinking about what they are really fighting for.
He waited for Althea to take her seat and when she relaxed herself, Death gave her the question, "I've been thinking but what do we achieve with aiding those guys anyway?" "Help, Allister is held captive by the creator and with the six masters in our side could give us leverage to get him back." Althea answered with a straight face. "I don't even expect them to help at all, they've been quiet for a millennia and they come back and order us around because of some hunch?" "Well then what can you suggest, how could we even get close to the creator without perishing?"
Death stopped for a moment, Althea made an excellent point. No one has ever seen the creator himself not even Allister. "Just as I feared, but I guess you are right I need to have assurance. If you have any plan or ideas approach me anytime, okay?" Death agrees and went on his way. He arrives at his castle and as he brushed through his collection he pulled a lever down and a glass window showed itself which shows the other worlds. "I know all about Allister's secret and with that I had a plan I just need to pull the strings at the right time." Death said to himself. He concealed the windows once again and assumes his current role.
Princess Bubblegum POV
Jake helped Marceline in covering Finn and dragging him back inside; we were surprised that he didn't notice his condition. Now we're inside Marceline's house, Finn was recovering some of his strength. The way her stuff was arranged is still the same. "Hey PB what's making you so tense, loosen up a bit and drink some tea." Jake was very calm right now for some reason, I was curious with the tea so I took a sip. I was overwhelmed with the flavor; it warms up my core and relaxes my tense nerves. "Marceline what kind of tea is this?" She was surprised with my question and she said, "Hey don't ask me, talk to Finn, he prepared it."
"Oh yeah I remember he used to read all about them in the library, I thought it was just to take his mind off of Fl..." Jake stopped as he realizes where his talk is leading to. "Anyway, what should we do? Finn doesn't remember our talk." Marceline was worried, it's time for payback. "That's what you get for taking him away from me." I stopped for a moment and when I realize what I said I covered my face to hide my embarrassment, I just set myself up for Marceline's teasing. "So Bonnie, trying to be sneaky huh?" I got myself in a hole and there's only one way out. "I mean for the kingdom and such." "I know you're lying, Bonnie."
I let out a sigh, "Okay I like Finn for a long time now." "But why did you reject him every time PB?" Jake asked. "I don't know Jake, but I feel that right now is the right time." "Well I can't blame you, Finn is one of a kind but don't even think for a moment that I will hand him over to you." Marceline said with seriousness in her voice. "Hey what're you talking about?" Finn entered the room which made the two of us blush. "Just girl talks Finn, don't worry about it." "But Jake is with you and he's not a girl." We all looked at Jake, he stood still then a bow formed on his head.
We all laughed at Jake's antics, when the noise died down Finn floated and sat near Marceline's side which made me a bit jealous. "So Finn, where do you plan on staying? Here or at the tree house." Jake asked. Finn rubbed his head for a second and then he answered. "The tree house, I mean my stuff is there right?" I felt relieved that he didn't choose the cave; I looked at Marceline and showed her my victorious smile which made her look away. "Why am I here anyway? Last thing I remember I was at the candy kingdom-" Finn suddenly grits his teeth and his head began aching. "Whoa bro, don't strain yourself. Here drink some of this."
Jake was spot on, Finn's headache was gone. "Thanks, I guess it's time to go." "So soon?" Marceline asked. "Sorry Marcy, I just feel drained. We'll hang out some other time don't worry." "Okay I'll hold on to that promise." Finn and Jake then stood up along with me. "I'll give you guys a ride home. Bye Marceline." She stood up too and went out of the cave with us, I called morrow to fetch us but before we go Marceline said, "Finn wait, I'm gonna tell you something." Finn approached her and then she proceeded to embrace him. When she let go of him he was frozen solid, Jake had to grab him and we were off. The whole trip to the tree house Finn was just silent.
Finn POV
Marcy was weird the whole time we stayed at her place but I feel unusually comfortable with it. I asked Jake why she was like that but all he said was, "I don't know Finn, talk to her and settle it with her." settle? Did I do something wrong that I was not aware of? I couldn't help but fester on it, I dug and dug through my mind what could've happened. "Okay you guys, we're here." PB said. Jake and I went down. "Thanks for the ride PB" Jake said. "Yeah we owe you one." I followed up. "Then uhh maybe you could..." I couldn't hear what she said, I was about to ask her to repeat but then morrow rushed away.
Jake and I went inside and Bmo was there with his cheery robot face which made me glad for a second. "Hi Finn, you want to watch movies or maybe play video games." He asked. I smiled at him and I said, "Thank you but not now Bmo, tomorrow maybe I'll be in the mood then." "Oh, okay, I'll be waiting." He went and walked away. "I'm stumped; going toe to toe with Marcy is hard." Jake commented. He went up leaving me on the living room alone. I didn't know what to do right now but as I inhale I got my answer. "Dear glob, I wish I didn't smell like that the whole time with Marcy and PB.
I went to the bath and began showering, I usually felt cold when the first streams of water comes out but since I became a vampire the water had no effect on me. As I washed my body I noticed a scar then suddenly some of my memories returns, I was dying... Marceline was with me and we were fighting the Lich. "Whoa, maybe that's why she was acting strange and the reason why I am a vampire right now. She save my life, I gotta thank her." I finished showering; I dried myself and fixed up my sleeping clothes. I went up to the room to find Jake sleeping soundly on his bed. I lied down on my bed to rest."
I spent almost half an hour trying to sleep but my mind can't relax, there is still something missing. I sat up to get my mind going, I wanted to ask Jake for advice but he's in deep sleep so I won't even bother. "Maybe my vault has the answer." I concentrated to get the vault open and when I did I began sifting through the memories, there were many inside, happy, sad, dreadful memories but one gave me the chills. Flame Princess, our break up, my attempts at trying to win her back which failed. I shook my head to avert my attention elsewhere. I continued wandering around and finally I saw something, a stray memory, it was fresh.
I approached it slowly but as I touched it my hand felt a jolt which made me walk back. This was it, the memory I was looking for, I'm not backing down on it now. I held it with both of my hands and then my whole body felt like it's being stabbed by needles. But I did my all to resist breaking contact with the memory, I held it close to my head. The closer it was the clearer the memory became and when it touched my head, the pain subsided then my mind showed me everything. Marcy on my death bed confessing her feelings and until the moment she turned me into a vampire. I got out but I felt bad for leaving her alone.
Third Person View
Finn stood up from his bed, he took his bag along with an extra one. He stuffed his clothes there and other essentials, he hauled his baggage but before he left he said to Jake, "Sorry bro, this is my true choice. We'll hang out some time." Finn left a letter and then he went on his way. Jake sensing Finn gone turned and said, "Good for you brother, follow your true self." He then kept the letter and he went down and opened the fridge for a glass of milk. "Jake is Finn okay?" Bmo asked. "He's fine, just setting things right I guess." Bmo frowned that Finn was gone and Jake noticed it. "Aww come on now don't be sad, I know let's play video games."
Meanwhile in Marceline's house it felt very empty, she tried to stop herself from crying but the loneliness she felt right now was surpassing every pain she have felt for all of the centuries she lived through. "Finn, you stupid idiot. Why did you leave me?" Her question was met with a muffled voice. "I'm sorry about earlier Marcy." She looked up and she saw Finn staring at the window with a smile on his face. Marceline rubbed her eyes to see if she's hallucinating or something but Finn was still there. "Are you gonna let me in or not?" She quickly rushed to the door and when she opened it she saw Finn and with his bags. "I'm Sor-"
She cuts him of by kissing his lips, Finn dropped his bags and Marceline pulled him inside. There were no words coming out of their mouths, both of them are too busy locking on each other Finn laid her down on the couch and continued making out. Marceline broke contact to get some air then she asked, "What made you change your mind?" "I guess I was missing a few factors back then, you could have told me you know." Finn then leaned onto her and continued kissing her. Marceline was surprised with how Finn handled her, she has an idea as to where he learned to do that but she brushed it off and enjoyed the moment she and Finn are in.
On the other side of the land the Candy kingdom is sleeping, except for their princess which is holding a meeting with the other royals of Ooo. "You are saying this now? How long did you know about this?" Breakfast Princess asked. They only received the information about Finn's change and the Lich's return at this very meeting and most of them are angered that it was kept secret. "I know that you all deserve to be informed but as I try to fix the situation on my own I realized that it can't be done alone, that is why I need your cooperation. They all spoke to each other trying to come up of a decision as to help or prepare on their own.
Princess Bubblegum was waiting anxiously, as the noise died down the breakfast kingdom answers. "We will not aide the Candy kingdom but we request the help of Finn the human in preparation for the Lich." "What are you saying, we need to help each other to face this threat." Some of the other kingdoms begun to voice out their decisions to most of them are afraid and want to rid of Finn and some are declaring hostility towards the Candy kingdom. Only lumpy space, wild berry kingdom and the goblin kingdom declared their help for the Princess. "I hope you all made the right decision tonight my fellow royalties, because there is no turning back now." After that the monitors have closed one by one.
Tensions are high and the Kingdoms as well as a few guardians are growing restless, meanwhile Finn and Marceline shuts the whole world away as they catch up for lost time. Hello Tresse here with another update for you guys, thank you for reading I hope you enjoyed this new update. If you do, then follow or add the story to your favorites. for any questions, reactions, suggestions and comments you are all welcome to leave a review. it helps a lot for me.
now for last chapter's reviews. Attackme: Again sorry for the wait, hopefully I will continue to post regularly from now on. He23t: Just a slight memory loss my friend nothing serious. FusionDeath: I'm excited to give you guys new chapters to read too, for now I hope you find this new one good. Anon: Thank you for the review, stay tuned for more. The Nephilim King Michael: Jake is just concerned, Marceline isn't a well known disciplinarian after all, as for peace I don't think it suits me well so as the story says conflict is on the rise. t.t: Hi, welcome to my story, glad you liked it, I only have a few vampires that I like so yeah.
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